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The article was published on December 2016 through January 2017.  The information relates to my topic because it gives me reasons why and why not of athletes getting paid to much or to little. The publishers are Jessie Edelman and Mackenzie Carro. It's supported and against giving me reasons why athletes are getting over paid saying they only play a sport there not saving lives also it's supported giving me reasons of why they don't get over paid saying it's a risk to be a athlete and they took it so they deserve the money. The purpose is to give information on if there getting over paid or not paid enough.

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Are Athletes Overpaid? - Persuasive Writing | Scholastic Scope Magazine

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Two writers face off in the debate over the salaries of professional athletes. Who makes the best argument?

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This picture was published on October 20, 2016. It relates to my topic because it's showing a pro athlete meeting a fan. The publisher of this picture is Fox Sports. It's supported because it's showing how friendly and kind and nice the athlete is to the fan. The purpose of the information is to tell people there is more to it than the money.

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C- This video was posted on July 30, 2015.
R- It relates to my topic because there talking about if athletes are making to much money.
A- The publisher of this video is TYT Sports.
A- It´s both because there debating on reasons why there over paid and reasons why they deserve and earned the money they made or make.
P- The purpose of the information it to show reasons why there over paid and why they aren't over paid.

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This picture was taken on March 3, 2014. It relates to my topic because pro athletes are dedicated to put in the work. The publisher of this picture is the MLB. It's supported because it's showing a pro athlete putting in the time and effort. The purpose of the information is to show that professional athletes are hard working and they deserve the money they get.

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C- This article was posted on September 9, 2008.
R- It relates to my topic because it´s telling me reasons why professional athletes aren't overpaid.
A- The publisher of this article is Dan Stein.
A- It´s supported because it´s why professional athletes aren't over paid.
P- The purpose of this information is to show that athletes don't make so much.

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How many times have you heard a fan, friend, or a talking head complain about the excessive salaries being paid to professional athletes?

Complaints about how no player is worth $25,000,000 a season or how a team with a payroll in excess of $100 million constantly permeate throughout sports talk radio and bar room discussions alike.

But I am here to say 90% of professional athletes are being paid exactly what they deserve. The professional sports industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry.

Between ticket sales, television and radio deals, advertising, and merchandise sales, professional sports is one of the most profitable businesses in the world.

Team and league run websites have only added to the revenue streams of professional sports. According to an article from cbcsports.ca (the equivalent of cbssports.com here in the states), Canadian pro sports leagues reported $2.2 billion dollars in team revenue.

That number is much higher here in the states.

Pro sports teams, with the exception of the publicly owned Green Bay Packers, are not required to open their books to the public. But if Canadian teams are generating $2.2 billion you can be sure that American pro teams are producing 10-15 times that amount with our larger amount of pro teams, bigger arenas/stadiums, more television time, and larger overall population of sports fans.

The players who help to fill those stadiums, attract fans to their tvs, radios, computers, and sell their jerseys and team apparel deserve their cut of this $25-35 billion dollar pie.

According to USA Today, the median salaries of players in the NFL is $677,647 a year.

Now that sounds like a lot of money to most Americans, including myself. But when you look at the context within which the athletes who earn that salary, you will realize that they are paid accordingly.

Athletes put in well over 40 hours a week of practice, study, workouts, and game time. They also put their careers on the line each and every time they go to work.

How many of us can say something like that?

When was the last time you stepped into your office not knowing if you'd be able to physically come back again tomorrow and file another TPS Report?

NBA teams have only 14-16 players under contract throughout a given season. These 14-16 are the key COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) that make the NBA money machine tick.

In 2006-2007, the average salary for a player from the Milwaukee Bucks was $2,537,880 dollars. Although the revenue of the Milwaukee Bucks that same season is not publicly available, it is widely believed that most NBA teams bring in between 200 and $300 million annually.

I am not arguing that most Americans are underpaid or that an athletes job is so much harder than the majority of American's daily grinds. I am simply suggesting that when you breakdown the numbers and look at the bigger picture of just how big of cash cows professional sports have become, it is only fair that the few select athletes who are good enough to make it in those leagues are properly compensated.

Athletes earn just what they deserve financially.

Exceptions include Carl Pavano, Mo Vaughn, Stephon Marbury, Keith Van Horn, Mike Hampton, and Allan Houston.

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How many times have you heard a fan, friend, or a talking head complain about the excessive salaries being paid to professional athletes? Complaints about how no player is worth $25,000,000 ...

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The picture was posted on September 21, 2017. It relates because it´s showing athletes not caring about the money but caring about a fan. The publisher of this picture is Doug Miller. It´s supported because it´s showing a professional MLB player being very friendly with a young fan. The purpose of this picture is to tell people that it´s not all about the money.

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The information was posted on January 25, 2020. It´s showing two athletes who make a lot of money. The publisher of this picture is Li Xiang. It´s supported because it´s showing two athletes who are playing the game for fun not the money. The purpose of my information is to show why athletes aren´t over paid.

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C- This video was made April 26, 2021
R- It relates to my topic because it´s talking about how much professional athletes make.
A- The publisher of this video is Nonstop Sports.
A- It´s both because it gives reasons why athletes are making to much and how they aren´t making enough.
P- The purpose of my information is to prove that athletes aren't making that much and how they deserve and earned all there money.

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Why NBA Players Are The Highest Paid Athletes

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C- The article was published on March 21, 2010.
R- It relates to my topic because it gives information on why athletes aren't paid to much.
A- The publisher is Jamel E.M. Cummings.
A-It's supported because it tells why professional athletes deserve there money.
P- The purpose of the information is to tell you why professional athletes aren't over paid.

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The picture was posted on November 7,2018. It relates to my topic because Tom Brady is one of the best nfl players. The publisher is Nicholas Slay. It supports because it´s showing hardship of being a athlete. The purpose of my information is to show that athletes don´t get paid to much.

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C- The article was published 3 years ago.
R- It´s telling you how professional athletes aren´t getting paid to much.
A-The publisher of the article is Brian anonymous.
A- It´s supported against my claim because it´s giving me information on why athletes aren´t over paid.
P- The purpose of the information is to give u factual information on why athletes aren´t over paid.

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Athletes deserve the millions of dollars they are paid.

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C- This article was published on October 20,2016.
R- The information relates to my topic because it gives information on reasons why athletes don´t make so much money.
A- The publisher of this article is Leland Faust.
A- It´s supported because it gives me factual information on how athletes aren´t over paid.
P- The purpose of the information is to tell you why athletes don´t make to much money.

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In June, Forbes published its annual list of the world's highest paid athletes. Of the top 25, nine are Americans employed by teams in the NBA or NFL. At first glance, $77 million in total income for LeBron James - he of the World Champion Cleveland Cavaliers and arguably the greatest basketball player on the planet - seems like a lot of money for someone who "plays" a game for a living. But as is often the case, things are not what they appear. In reality, James and many other athletes are actually wildly underpaid - specifically when it comes to their on-field salaries.

Please let that sink in for a moment.

James, who recently signed the first ever lifetime contract doled out by Nike - a deal that reportedly could pay him as much as $1 billion if certain shoe and apparel sales metrics are met - makes most of his money off the court. He made about $23 million to play about 100 games last season in Cleveland.

And he will be underpaid this season at about $31 million because that's the maximum allowed under the collective bargaining agreement. Crazy, right? Not necessarily. I have provided investment advice and legal counsel to well over 500 professional athletes over the course of my career (over 100 All-Stars), and I have given this a lot of thought, so let's explore some of the reasons why he's underpaid.

First, we need to understand where sports fits into today's society and how the industry has grown. Sports occupy unique cultural real estate and unify us in a way that nothing else does. No matter where we go, sports are inescapable. The industry gets exposure across all forms of media - 24/7 radio, TV, newspapers and the Internet. Sometimes this makes the industry appear much larger than it truly is. One recent study found that in 2013, the total revenue generated by all American sports (including college) totaled about $60 billion - good enough for about 60th place if it had been just one company among the Fortune 500 corporations. Because of the extensive media coverage, the business of sports feels a lot bigger than it actually is.

In the NFL, king of American sports, the Super Bowl is, for all practical purposes, a national holiday. The game's broadcast is the most widely seen TV event every year, and about nine of the 10 most-watched other programs during the year are NFL games. The NBA and Major League Baseball are also enjoying record-setting TV contracts.
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Sports are cross-cultural in a way that virtually nothing else is. Sports fans have no one demographic. They are rich, poor, Democrats, Republicans, men, women, and people of all ages; fans exist across the entire spectrum of our society. From the perspective of TV producers, the pro sports heroes are the ideal reality TV stars, and the games are the perfect product. The results are unknown, so gambling is huge, and most people want to watch live so it's much harder to zap the commercials.

Many of these factors account for just how valuable team franchises have become over the last half century or more. In 1950, the Boston Celtics founder sold a minority interest in the team for a rumored $5,000. Today, the franchise is estimated to be worth at least $1.5 billion. (For what it's worth, that investment has grown some 21 percent per year, compounded, for 65 years. Uninterrupted. Not bad!)

When former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was exposed for making racist comments, his fellow NBA owners rightfully publicly decried his conduct, but I imagine behind the scenes they were cheering. They knew a sale of the Clippers would generate a huge price, but most of them were still surprised by the blockbuster $2 billion bid eventually made by Steven Ballmer. By acquiring the Clippers for such a staggering price, Ballmer increased the value of each and every other team in the NBA and most, if not all, other pro team franchises in the U.S. The players, of course, shared in absolutely none of that bonanza. In addition, their bargaining power is always been restricted by the drafts which are not about competitive balance, but rather cost-containment for the owners.

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The athletes are paid - and by most standards rather handsomely - to perform services for a few years. Just do the job, cash the paychecks, and then when their short careers are over, move on. There is a widespread perception that professional athletes simply play; that they don't work. Most people, constrained by their own experiences, fail to understand what it actually takes to succeed at the most elite level of sports competition. They reject the notion that what they do for recreation is in fact work which requires just as much dedication, effort, skill, and sacrifice as a normal person's profession. Collectively we tend to view sports as fun and not work, and fail to understand how uniquely skilled the athletes are.

In a country of about 320 million people, there are only a maximum of 450 active NBA players at any given time during a season. That's just about 0.00014% of the population, if you're keeping score at home. In the NFL, on account of the larger 53-man rosters, it's about 0.00053%. Even limiting the talent pool to age-appropriate adults, not very many people will ever find themselves playing on professional sports teams.

This tells us that "professional athlete" is one of the rarest job titles a person can hold. And at the highest levels of any given sport, the greatest players are even more precious and rare. In fact, they are irreplaceable.

Which brings us back to LeBron James. Let's compare his unique contribution to those of David Letterman. Letterman is a skilled performer who was reportedly paid some $28M per year by CBS before he retired from late night TV. (Just about the average of James' NBA salaries this season and last.) A few years ago, when Letterman fell ill unexpectedly, CBS brought in various guest hosts on short notice to fill in for him. The network got through it with little difficulty.

The Cavaliers without James for an extended period of time? Such a loss would be - and has been, as seen when James left for Miami in 2010 - catastrophic for the franchise, on and off the court.
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Still, there will always be those who say that professional athletes should thank their lucky stars for what they have and any talk about them being underpaid is pure hogwash. Sure, compared to teachers, lawyers, doctors and just about anyone else they are overpaid, but not when compared to TV, movie and music stars. The players, pure and simple, are TV stars, and their compensation should reflect that. The contract that will kick in for the NBA and its owners in the 2016-17 season pays about $2.6 billion per year in revenue (up from about $950 million). When revenue triples, the players should (and do) share.

NFL contracts often look much bigger than they truly are. Most are not guaranteed; a player can be released without pay beyond the current year. A five-year, $100 million contract may be signed when both the player and the team know that a significant number of the years will never be played and the compensation for those years will never be paid.

Contrast that to MLB contracts, where most of the long-term deals are guaranteed. But those long-term contracts are not required until the player is eligible for free agency, which can only occur after the equivalent of at least six full seasons in the majors. A second-year All-Star can be paid just above minimum salary.

Professional sports revenues are rapidly increasing because of the seemingly insatiable appetites for unique TV programs. Pro athletes are the stars of those shows, and TV stars get paid a lot. Judge Judy makes about $45 million per year. The voice actors for The Simpsons earn about $60,000 for each hour they actually work. If they worked a normal full-time job, that would be about $120 million per year. Sandra Bullock earned $77 million for one picture, Gravity, while Will Smith made $100 million for Men in Black 3.

Let's consider how unique and irreplaceable many of the athletes are and take account of all the restrictions placed on their bargaining ability. Then we'll understand why, when compared to other entertainers, many of the top athletes are underpaid.

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Why professional athletes are actually underpaid

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In June, Forbes published its annual list of the world's highest paid athletes. Of the top 25, nine are Americans employed by teams in the NBA or NFL. At first glance, $77 million in total income for LeBron James - he of the World Champion Cleveland Cavaliers and arguably the greatest basketball player on the planet - seems like a lot of money for someone who "plays" a game for a living.